Stewardship as a Lifestyle

Pastors and ministry leaders will want to check out John Frank's recent post Stewardship as a Lifestyle. It's an excellent take on what stewardship implies to our organizations and to those that support us. Here's an excerpt:

I have a challenge for my leadership friends in churches and parachurch ministries: Your organizations are not in Scripture. What you do is. To feed the hungry, care for the widow and the orphan, share the Good News, and the like are clearly in Scripture. But your organization, denomination, or local church structure is not defined in the Bible.

The steward by contrast is Scripturally defined. God cares about how we live. He is concerned with how we, as stewards, invest ourselves in frontlines ministry. We will be held accountable for our stewardship generosity in caring for God's people. (Phil. 4:17) Our churches and ministries are conduits for stewards to exercise their priorities and callings.

Do you work in an organization without a faith-based orientation? Well, the lesson still applies to you! What you do, not who you are, is what matters. Our organizations are conduits for our donors/stewards to exercise their priorities, passions, and callings. We serve to help them serve.

So be it.